The TC has the "right" to make interpretations about technical standards.
99% of them are excruciatingly boring yet important. This decision is only interesting because everybody hates systemd but the paid astroturfers and the "desktop people".
Most of the decisions are like a recent-ish one along the lines of can a package in main "recommend" (or something like that) several packages, one of which is in non-free, while not getting kicked into the contrib ghetto for mentioning non-free but not depending on it.
Systemd was rammed down our unwilling throats as a "technical decision" which is kind of stretching the definition.
You are correct, in that its a non-dogfood eating desktop coup, which should have gone to vote.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 09 2014, @12:34PM
The TC has the "right" to make interpretations about technical standards.
99% of them are excruciatingly boring yet important. This decision is only interesting because everybody hates systemd but the paid astroturfers and the "desktop people".
Most of the decisions are like a recent-ish one along the lines of can a package in main "recommend" (or something like that) several packages, one of which is in non-free, while not getting kicked into the contrib ghetto for mentioning non-free but not depending on it.
Systemd was rammed down our unwilling throats as a "technical decision" which is kind of stretching the definition.
You are correct, in that its a non-dogfood eating desktop coup, which should have gone to vote.